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Vote counting - why so long?
The votes are cast, but counting them is no simple task. Peter Martin explains the process - and why it takes so long.
The votes are cast, but counting them is no simple task. Peter Martin explains the process - and why it takes so long.
It's likely that by week's end, there will be more questions on bank behaviour rather than less. And that could make for some very tricky politics.
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George Christensen agreeing with Sarah Hanson-Young. Labor defending wealthy private schools. What on earth is going on?
Newspapers, said the Prime Minister, are a "wonderful romantic business".
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In the months since the July 2 election, Malcolm Turnbull and his ministers have relied heavily on the claim that Australia's voters handed them a mandate to hold a plebiscite on whether same-sex marriage should be legalised.
Decision-makers for Australia's diplomacy are scrambling to urgently imagine life in the Trump universe.
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Just as governments depend upon the public service, political parties depend upon their bureaucrats, party officials, campaign directors and ministerial staffers.
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A crazy idea that looks like getting up was based on the notion that government could give small business a much-needed boost by cutting their company tax.
There is blame enough for all sides in this ridiculous stand-off. Meanwhile, same-sex couples are left in limbo, altar in sight but out of reach.
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What comes to mind when you think of revolution?
It's easy to make promises to voters when you'll never be in a position to deliver them.
The biggest concern about the plebiscite is the huge emotional toll it could take on young people seeing the legitimacy of their identity debated on the national stage.
Australia's targeted social-service payments are far from costly.
Malcolm Turnbull's call for G20 leaders to resist protectionism is hypocritical in view of his government's actions.
Christian Porter's "moral imperative" is deeply personal for me.
It was the lie that defined the 2016 election campaign, slashed Malcolm Turnbull's majority by 14 seats and almost propelled Bill Shorten to victory.
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If Malcolm Turnbull's agreement to help the United States resettle Central American refugees being held in Costa Rica isn't the start of a solution for those on Nauru and Manus Island, it should be.
Reannouncing a policy or initiative with some sparkly new research or catchy sell is the politician's equivalent of a Kim Kardashian nearly-nude bathroom selfie.
Bill Shorten, who declares himself opposed to Malcolm Turnbull's plebiscite on gay marriage because of its potential to cause social torment and because of its price tag, is having his own mini-plebiscite on the matter.
Malcolm Turnbull is right. Australia does have the world's best border protection policy, if the principal measure of success is that no one gets in without an invitation.
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Aren't you glad to be Australian? If you believe the numbers, you picked a winner. We're celebrating a quarter-century of economic expansion: 25 years of year-on-year GDP growth or, better still, 100 quarters without a recession since June 1991!
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The hurly-burly of the 2016 election campaign, as seen through the eyes of Fairfax reporters and photographers.
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